Pope Francis hopes to go to Spain

At the end of the Mass on Sunday of the Word of God, this January 26, Pope Francis briefly approached the delegates of Spanish Diocesan media who were in the Basilica of San Pedro in the Vatican and, before the invitation to Spain , he replied: “I hope to go.”

This was recorded in a video broadcast on social networks and collected by COPEMedium of communication of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.

This desire was also expressed by the Pope to the auxiliary bishop of the Canary Islands, Mons. Cristóbal Déniz, on Saturday 25 during a hearing in the Paul VI classroom on the occasion of the Jubilee of the communicators.

There, according to collect The Spanish newspaper La Razón, the Holy Father told Mons. Déniz “I want to go to the Canary Islands”, while congratulating the work done by the Catholic Church in favor of migrants who arrive at the Spanish archipelago, which is located in the Northwest from Africa.

In September 2024, Pope Francis had talked about this yearning of his at the press conference during the return flight of his trip to Asia and Oceania.

On that occasion, after sharing I wanted to visit Argentina – “I would like to go, it’s my town, I would like to go, but it is not yet determined” -, the Holy Father said he was “thinking a little about going to the Canary Islands, because there are there Situations of migrants who come from the sea and I would like to be close to the rulers and people. ”